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slide valve

noun

Machinery.
  1. a valve that slides without lifting to open or close an aperture, as the valves of the ports in the cylinders of certain steam engines.


slide valve

noun

  1. a valve that slides across an aperture to expose the port or opening
  2. modifier fitted with slide valves

    a slide-valve engine

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of slide valve1

First recorded in 1795–1805
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According to the update , erosion created a hole in the slide valve, allowing air to mix with hydrocarbons.

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FCCUs use a fine, silica catalyst in high heat to make gasoline from gas oil and the passage of the sand-like catalyst over the slide valve at the Superior refinery wore a hole in it.

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Helicopters Inc. has since changed its story, now blaming the crash on a jammed slide valve, a component in the hydraulic system controlling the chopper’s tail rotor.

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The valves of the high-pressure and intermediate cylinders were of the piston type, and the low-pressure cylinder had double-ported slide valves, fitted with Stephenson link motion.

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The construction of a common slide valve is shown in Fig.

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